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NASCAR Cup Series

Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500

Martinsville Speedway

April 10th, 2021

Race #8 of the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 500
Miles Raced : 263.0
Time of Race : 03 Hours 54 minutes 25 seconds
Average Speed: 67.316 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.972 seconds
Cautions: 15
Caution Laps: 102
Lead Changes: 18

Martin Truex Jr leads the field — Martinsville, Virginia - April 11th, 2021: Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #19 Bass Pro Toyota, leads the field during the NASCAR Cup Series Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway on April 11, 2021 in Martinsville, Virginia. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Martin Truex Jr	7	3	3	1	1	13	4.3	+6	46	32	+14	46	41	100.0%	20	500	126.8	56
Chase Elliott	5	5	4	2	1	19	6.3	+3	72	47	+25	68	19	96.6%	0	500	114.5	49
Denny Hamlin	2	2	1	3	1	18	1.8	-1	25	20	+5	25	81	99.6%	276	500	139.8	52
William Byron	3	11	8	4	1	15	6.8	-1	65	57	+8	63	22	100.0%	9	500	107.5	42
Kyle Larson	19	10	5	5	2	22	8.3	+14	77	60	+17	72	21	95.2%	0	500	102.4	38
Joey Logano	1	21	9	6	1	22	7.9	-5	34	45	-11	32	3	84.0%	6	500	94.2	33
Christopher Bell	23	17	6	7	1	27	10.8	+16	83	57	+26	62	14	82.8%	9	500	95.7	31
Tyler Reddick	13	12	11	8	4	36	14.6	+5	111	86	+25	77	9	69.4%	0	500	80.6	32
Kevin Harvick	9	13	7	9	5	21	13.3	+0	82	88	-6	47	7	60.0%	0	500	80.1	28
Kyle Busch	12	6	15	10	2	25	11.7	+2	67	50	+17	48	11	81.2%	0	500	92.5	29
Ryan Blaney	4	1	2	11	1	19	4.1	-7	40	20	+20	37	29	98.2%	157	500	114.9	46
Matt DiBenedetto	22	16	14	12	9	29	17.1	+10	73	56	+17	28	0	53.8%	0	500	73.0	25
Chris Buescher	15	18	17	13	3	24	15.7	+2	64	72	-8	36	4	34.0%	0	500	72.7	24
Austin Dillon	18	9	16	14	1	28	14.3	+4	76	74	+2	48	11	63.6%	0	500	79.7	23
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	6	20	13	15	4	29	18.7	-9	80	108	-28	24	0	25.4%	0	500	65.2	22
Bubba Wallace	25	23	10	16	1	28	16.2	+9	60	61	-1	27	2	38.8%	23	500	70.6	21
Ross Chastain	27	30	19	17	2	30	24.0	+10	55	73	-18	3	0	3.2%	0	500	55.0	20
Cole Custer	26	29	18	18	13	32	24.3	+8	66	63	+3	3	0	1.2%	0	500	54.0	19
Ryan Newman	8	15	12	19	1	29	13.7	-11	52	81	-29	29	0	60.8%	0	499	66.8	18
Aric Almirola	31	14	21	20	5	31	21.0	+11	59	64	-5	12	4	7.4%	0	499	59.3	17
Kurt Busch	21	8	22	21	4	33	16.7	+0	82	75	+7	37	4	46.4%	0	498	68.0	17
James Davison	37	34	26	22	22	37	32.7	+15	15	9	+6	0	1	0.0%	0	494	34.0	15
Josh Bilicki	33	32	23	23	22	36	31.3	+10	18	19	-1	0	0	0.0%	0	493	36.0	14
Quin Houff	29	33	25	24	10	37	31.4	+5	19	28	-9	0	0	0.0%	0	493	32.5	13
JJ Yeley	28	35	27	25	17	37	33.4	+3	11	11	+0	0	0	0.0%	0	492	34.0	0
Anthony Alfredo	35	28	24	26	1	35	27.5	+9	40	44	-4	0	7	0.4%	0	492	42.3	11
Chase Briscoe	24	26	20	27	8	31	23.9	-3	59	71	-12	11	0	7.8%	0	491	41.7	10
Cody Ware	32	36	28	28	6	37	32.8	+4	9	12	-3	0	0	0.0%	0	490	33.8	0
BJ McLeod	36	37	29	29	20	37	33.9	+7	22	17	+5	0	2	0.0%	0	478	37.6	0
Erik Jones	16	19	30	30	6	25	21.0	-14	55	78	-23	5	0	7.0%	0	403	48.0	7
Michael McDowell	14	27	31	31	11	31	25.9	-17	64	79	-15	1	0	2.4%	0	387	42.7	6
Daniel Suarez	11	22	32	32	3	35	24.7	-21	62	95	-33	8	34	10.4%	0	386	58.1	5
Brad Keselowski	10	7	33	33	1	29	15.8	-23	42	32	+10	30	5	63.8%	0	385	76.8	12
Alex Bowman	20	4	34	34	2	29	14.5	-14	60	56	+4	47	18	67.6%	0	384	80.3	13
Justin Haley	30	25	35	35	23	36	30.2	-5	50	40	+10	0	0	0.0%	0	383	37.3	0
Ryan Preece	17	31	36	36	1	35	26.3	-19	16	34	-18	10	32	33.0%	0	382	68.5	1
Corey Lajoie	34	24	37	37	9	34	26.5	-3	65	53	+12	8	0	6.0%	0	374	42.3	1

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Race Fast Facts

Martinsville Speedway
72nd Annual Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500
Race Winner: Martin Truex Jr.
Age: 40
Team : No. 19 - Bass Pro Toyota
Owner: Coy Gibbs
Crew Chief: James Small
Martin Truex Jr. won the 72nd Annual Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, his 29th victory in 558 Cup Series races.
This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2021.
This is his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.
Chase Elliott (second) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 13 races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2021.
Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 22nd top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.
Anthony Alfredo (26th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Denny Hamlin leads the point standings by 76 points over Martin Truex Jr..

Race Recap

Late pass gives Martin Truex Jr. third NASCAR Cup victory at Martinsville

April 11th, 2021

By Reid Spencer - NASCAR Wire Service

Martin Truex Jr. passed Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin on Lap 485 of Sunday's rain-delayed Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway and pulled away to win for the third time in his last four starts at the .526-mile short track.

The victory was Truex's second this season, ending a streak of seven straight different winners to start the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season. The driver of the No. 19 Toyota triumphed for the 29th time in his career and for the fifth time in his last 11-short track starts.

Truex finished 1.972 seconds ahead of runner-up Chase Elliott, who passed Hamlin for the second spot on Lap 495 of 500. Hamlin held third, 2.364 seconds behind, to post his seventh top-five finish (including four third-place results) in his eight starts this season.

"I can't believe we won again here, after not having the dominant car today, for sure," said Truex, who led for the first time when he beat Hamlin out of the pits on Lap 455 but surrendered the top spot to Hamlin's short-run speed after a restart on Lap 459. "It was a lot of fun there at the end racing with Denny.

"We raced clean, and we were able to come out on top. It's definitely difficult. We try to race hard, race clean. He was making it difficult on me—I was loose coming off the corners. His car got tight, so we kind of had opposite things going on, and it made it difficult to pass. We played nice. (Team owner) Coach (Joe Gibbs) will be happy. It'll be a cordial meeting tomorrow."

In a race that produced 15 cautions for 102 laps, the 42-lap green-flag run to the finish proved Hamlin's undoing. The driver No. 11 Toyota didn't have the long-run speed to hold off his teammate.

"It's just the cards we were dealt," said Hamlin, who led 276 laps. "We had a really good short-run car. We just didn't have a good long-run car. We just couldn't get our car to turn in the long run. That was the bugaboo of it, I guess you could say.

"We had a really fast car for 20 laps or so, and then it would just kind of go away."

Hendrick Motorsports teammates William Byron and Kyle Larson finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Joey Logano, Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch completed the top 10.

Ryan Blaney won the first and second stages and led 157 laps, but his No. 12 Team Penske Ford dragged an air hose out of the pit box on his final stop, earning a penalty that sent him to the back of the field for the Lap 459 restart. He fought back for an 11th-place finish.

"We've had an issue the last three times we've been here with a car to win, so that's frustrating, but I'm real proud of the effort," Blaney said. "I just wish we could close one out."

A 15-car pileup worthy of a "Big One" at Talladega thinned the field of potential winners and blocked the track as effectively as the forlorn container ship stopped traffic in the Suez Canal. Then melee started with side-to-side contact between the cars of Chris Buescher and Kyle Busch and collected a baker's dozen of cars behind them—and setting the Chevrolets of Daniel Suarez and Ryan Preece on fire.

The wreck, which stopped the race under a red flag that lasted 21 minutes, 47 seconds, was the coup de grace for two-time Martinsville winner Brad Keselowski, who had sustained damage in two earlier accidents.

"It's just unfortunate that we got caught up in it," Keselowski said. "The track was blocked. I think I was just barely going to get stopped in time, and somebody clobbered me from behind and just tore us up. It's a bummer. I think we were really good.

"We drove up into the top five and lost the power-steering. I was able to manhandle it around the race track, but I couldn't get down pit road where you go to turn in your pit box… Just one of those compounding, frustrating short-track days, but we had decent speed."

The race was halted by rain after 42 laps on Saturday night and resumed under caution at 4 p.m. on Sunday.